Some great points & advice there Rick, thank you.
I've put together several electric planes now but this is by far the largest. This is also my first experience with a Castle Creations ESC but I'm familiar with all the usual functions. I did lots of research & discussed the setup at length with some very knowledgeable e-tow pilots over at
RCAerotowing.com. I also ran everything through eCalc a bazillion different ways (
here's the current setup). Your estimations are pretty much what we're expecting, yeap.
That's an interesting point about the ESC's auto calibrate feature. No way of knowing if she achieved full power while I was testing *shrug*. I'm not too worried either way, that was just a test. I'll set her up properly soon enough, get the USB cable hooked up & program all the goodies. I'm really looking forward to that stuff, love tinkering with settings. I'm really excited about the data logging feature too. Fun Fun.